The city's draft tobacco control strategy also suggests Plymouth City Council could use its powers to reclassify films showing smoking. "An 18 certificate — usually reserved for movies with violent and sexual content — would be attached to any film release that features the unhealthy habit in an attempt to prevent it from appearing glamorous," reported the Daily Mail. Children's classics such as 101 Dalmatians, Pinocchio and Peter Pan would all be considered adult-only movies.
The idea that appears to have locals up in arms is banning smoking at the already rather smoky fireworks competition on Plymouth Hoe. Mother-of-two Nikki Lee told the Plymouth Herald: "I agree with the smoking ban in pubs and inside, but definitely not in outside spaces. If they banned smoking at the fireworks competition, I just wouldn't go."
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